Native American Ways

“Go now to your dwelling place. To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.”
(from an Apache marriage blessing)

“Lose your temper and you lose a friend: lie and you lose yourself.”
(Hopi saying)

“Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.
This is the Indian theory of existence.”
(Mourning Dove, Salish)

“Thoughts are like arrows, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim.”
(Navajo saying)

“I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for A man to depend simply upon himself.”
(Lone Man, Teton Sioux)

“Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.”
(Black Elk, Oglala)

“We believe that the Sun Spirit is all powerful, for every spring he makes the trees to bud and the grass to grow. We see these things with our own eyes, and therefore, know that all life comes from him.”
(Unknown Blackfoot)

“A good man does not take what belongs to someone else”.
(Pueblo saying)

“Every man is good in His own sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.”
(Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux)

“All dreams spin out from the same web.”
(Hopi saying)

“Man’s law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same”.
(Crow saying)

“In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”
(From the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy)